Chronic respiratory disease is one of the 4 main NCDs requiring action, yet one of the the least acknowledged. Dean Schraufnagel hopes an annual World Lung Day on 25th September will help change that.
The HLPF, held from 10-19 July in New York, concluded with Member States adopting a Ministerial Declaration. NCDA, together with several partners, convened a side event to discuss the links between nutrition & diet throughout the 2030 Agenda and mechanisms for promoting healthy environments.
Lucy Westerman reports back on the first WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours held from 26-28 June 2017, which focused on enhancing public health actions to achieve health targets for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including prevention of NCDs.
Investments to achieve the health targets in the SDGs could prevent 97 million premature deaths globally between now and 2030, and add as much as 8.4 years of life expectancy in some countries.
‘Human rights’ are a fundamental overarching principle of treaties relating to noncommunicable diseases. So what are human rights and how are they relevant to NCDs?
The push for a healthier Caribbean received a considerable boost last week, as the leaders at the 38th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference made new commitments to tackle the NCD epidemic.
This event, on the margins of the UN High-level Political Forum, will explore policies to prevent obesity as part of a broader strategy to address diet-related NCDs, and to achieve the SDGs.
Nine high-level international experts have signed a column published in the French newspaper « Le Monde » this week, calling for an urgent international mobilisation to face the scourge of diabetes in Africa.
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